Say no to enable large disk support.
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Say no to enable large disk support.
It doesn't even ASK me if I wanna enable large disk support.
What would be the point of not enabling it, that'd only see 2GB of it anyway, I need access to the full 8.4GB?
Yes. GRUB can boot just about anything. All hail GRUB! You might want to check that you have NTFS support enabled too. This shouldn't be a problem for reading from the NT partition but it still could cause other problems.Quote:
Can GRUB (or even LILO) boot NTFS partitions (Win2K)?
Here's a link you might want to read on NTFS Support.
You also might want to check the following:
1. Has a virus infected your MBR?
2. Does your HD have errors?
3. Are you using a SCSI drive?
4. Are you installing Win2k first First?
Here's a good article on multibooting different OS's.
Hope this helps :).
If you delete all partitions using fdisk, then restart and run fdisk again(considering that this is a Win boot disk, if it is), it should ask you if you want to enable 'large disk support'...how are you booting the system after erasing all partitions? I don't know how Linux handles it, but Win basically begs you to enable it...Quote:
Originally posted here by Rewandythal
It doesn't even ASK me if I wanna enable large disk support.
What would be the point of not enabling it, that'd only see 2GB of it anyway, I need access to the full 8.4GB?
In W98 boots, the primary partition is DOS(kinda)...
In short...how are you rebooting after format and deletion of partitions?...boot disk? Changing boot order in the BIOS? What OS?
Ouroboros
I don't know if this is true of the latest versions,
but I have encountered situations where the
Windows, or MS-DOS version of FDISK is in-
capable of deleting partitions created by
the LINUX version of FDISK.
Windows FDISK can tell that there is a
"non dos partition", but refuses to
delete it, and will only work with the
FAT partitions already defined.
The solution is to either create your (FAT or NTFS)
partitions with Linux FDISK, or , better,
delete all partitions with LINUX FDISK,
and then Windows FDISK will see the
whole drive.
If all else fails, there should be some
way to nuke the master boot sector
entirely (norton utilities)
:cool:
What about trying ranish partition manager? http://come.to/ranish. Or maybe using the linux fdisk off the CD?
Cheers,
cgkanchi
Right, to clear a few things up:
[1] I do not have a virus, I know that for a FACT
[2] I have had Linux installed with no problems previously
[3] I have got rid of linux completely (temporarily - I can't last long without it) in order to install 2K to test something out.
[4] I've tried Linux FDISK to delete the lot but it still doesn't let Dos FDISK see the full drive
[5] I'm not trying to dualboot
[6] 2000's partitioner sees the full 8.4 and will partition it, but when it reboots part way thfu setup it fails with a Disk Read Error.
[7] I've tried Ranish Partition Manager... that only sees 520MB as well.
[8] Anything else I forgot to mention.
So anyone have any other suggestions for getting 2K on the machine, otherwise I'll jus reinstall Mandrake 7.1 and forget about it til I get another base unit I can use for testing it out on.
http://www.xosl.org/ - a good boot loader with the features you want
http://support.wdc.com/download/dlg/dlgmaker.exe - a diagnostic tool to check the integrity of your hard drive.
Windows is much more touchy about bad clusters when it installs than linux is. I have seen linux run on a drive that had half of its clusters be marked bad by a scandisk utility. windows didn't even come close to starting its install, and linux installed, booted, and was running circles around the windows deamon.... ummmmmmm. Well you get the idea. :D
I hope you get our box up.
There's nothing physically wrong with the HDD, as far as I know... It was brand new 2 months ago, it's had Linux on since then (although I did have Windows 98 on it for 2 days at the beginning whilst I downloaded some patches for my Win2k install on another machine (I had to download a modem driver, so the 2K machine could get on the net to download the rest itself, and I only have Winmodems, so i had to go from a Windows box.)